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June 21, 2020, 8:30 AM

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New York Times:
TikTok users and K-pop fan accounts claim they registered thousands of tickets for Trump's Tulsa rally as a prank, resulting in lower than expected attendance  —  Did a successful prank inflate attendance expectations for President Trump's rally in Tulsa, Okla.?
Brian Fung / CNN:
VF Corp's The North Face, REI, and Upwork say they are committing to an ad boycott of Facebook in light of its handling of misinformation and hate speech  —  (CNN Business)Outdoor apparel brand The North Face has become the best-known company yet to commit to an advertising boycott of Facebook …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
What to expect from WWDC 2020: transition to ARM Macs, iOS 14 with Car Key and a Google Translate-like feature, third-party music services on HomePod, and more  —  - Company to announce move to Macs running its own processors  — Developers complaining about longtime App Store rules, fees
Sarah Holder / Bloomberg:
Nextdoor discontinues a feature that let users forward posts directly to police departments, but retains other ways, like DMs, to contact police via its app  —  “Forward to Police,” one of several Nextdoor programs to strengthen law enforcement relations, has been criticized for elevating racial profiling.
Kevin / kwokchain:
An in-depth look at how Figma, a browser-based collaborative design tool, has found success, as it seeks to become a platform by building out a plugin ecosystem  —  Companies are a sequencing of loops.  While it's possible to stumble into an initial core loop that works …
Brian Barth / MIT Technology Review:
A look at Toronto's growth as a tech hub, selling itself as a gentler, kinder version of Silicon Valley  —  The Canadian tech hub is selling itself as an antidote to the tech industry's worst impulses.  But what does that entail?  —  It is a frigid February day when I visit Communitech …
Patrick Kulp / Adweek:
Pandora will offer more stats to podcast hosts like where listeners live, how long they tune in to each episode, and the number of thumbs up/down they receive  —  Move makes the streaming service more competitive with Apple and Spotify  —  Key insight:  — Podcasting has long suffered …
Bloomberg:
Sources: ARM ousted ARM China CEO Allen Wu after discovering that he had set up a competing investment fund; Wu maintains he is still in charge of ARM China  —  - Chinese corporation rules mean he will be difficult to remove  — Wu maintains he is still in charge of Arm China Joint Venture
Thanks:@pelstrom
Jason Fried / HEY:
HEY's Jason Fried responds to Apple, says the dispute is not about the money, but about how Apple forcibly inserts itself between developers and their customers  —  So far, much of the recent discussion around Apple, HEY, In App Purchase (IAP), Subscriptions, the App Store, and the iOS developer community has been about money.

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